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- Title
"A Fixed Melancholy": Migration, Memory, and the Middle Passage.
- Authors
Mallipeddi, Ramesh
- Abstract
The article explores the experiences of enslaved Africans transported over the Middle Passage, with a particular focus on emotional distress characterized by nostalgia, or homesickness. According to the author, nostalgia was treated as a disease by white slave traders and physicians but can also be read as a means of resistance by enslaved people. The roles of nostalgia in the book "Interesting Narrative" by Olaudah Equiano and in the contemporary black diaspora are also discussed.
- Subjects
ATLANTIC Ocean Region; SLAVE trade; MIDDLE passage (Slave trade); HOMESICKNESS; NOSTALGIA; EQUIANO, Olaudah, b. 1745; AFRICAN diaspora; HISTORY
- Publication
Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation, 2014, Vol 55, Issue 2/3, p235
- ISSN
0193-5380
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/ecy.2014.0025